# Publicly available Vaultwarden Services

**URL:** <https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/publicly-available-vaultwarden-services/3457>\
**Category:** Third Party Help\
**Created:** [March 19, 2024, 2:46pm UTC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/publicly-available-vaultwarden-services/3457 "2024-03-19T14:46:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![bartAV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@bartAV](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/u/bartAV)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2024, 2:46pm UTC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/publicly-available-vaultwarden-services/3457/1 "2024-03-19T14:46:58Z")

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I was just wondering what the relation is between Vaultwarden, Dani-Garcia and the websites publicly available Vaultwarden services.

I had not seen these sites before. Is it save to use these versions of Vaultwarden?

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**Author:** ![stefan0xC](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/vaultwarden.discourse.group/stefan0xc/32/1765_2.png) [@stefan0xC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/u/stefan0xC)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2024, 3:01pm UTC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/publicly-available-vaultwarden-services/3457/2 "2024-03-19T15:01:27Z")

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This question comes up regularly. There’s no relation (besides them using this projects name and software). Vaultwarden the project is intended to be used for self-hosting and does not endorse any public hosted instance of Vaultwarden.

Cf. the following GitHub discussions:

> **[Public Instances · dani-garcia/vaultwarden · Discussion #3233](https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/discussions/3233)**
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> @dani-garcia @BlackDex a friend and i are currently hosting redacted. Hodahel Moinzadeh is currently hosting redacted We kindly wanted to ask if there could be a place at the vaultwarden repo (Mayb...

> **[Concerns about publicy hosted Vaultwarden's · dani-garcia/vaultwarden ·...](https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/discussions/3810)**
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> As a newcomer to this project, I have been looking around the internet about it and came across this website: vaultwarden.xx . Initially, I naively assumed that the site might be affiliated with th...

> **[Are publicly hosted instances safe? · dani-garcia/vaultwarden · Discussion #3938](https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/discussions/3938)**
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> I want to use a publicly hosted instance but I'm not sure if they are safe. xxx or xxx

> **[Public vaultwarden · dani-garcia/vaultwarden · Discussion #4142](https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/discussions/4142)**
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> I came across a public vaultwarden via DuckDuckGo. Are you related? If not, are any donations transferred to @dani-garcia? And maybe people should be warned you're not relate? \*I don't want to adve...

> **[Are Public hosted Vaultwarden instances legit .? · dani-garcia/vaultwarden ·...](https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/discussions/4367)**
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> I wanted to know if this site is legitimate for you, because personally I have a doubt... the domain name has lots of servers everywhere... and as Vaultwarden is not a company... which is hiding be...

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**Author:** ![bartAV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@bartAV](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/u/bartAV)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/publicly-available-vaultwarden-services/3457/3 "2024-03-19T15:09:20Z")

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Thank you @stefan0xC I did not see those before. That makes it very clear.